{"id":151226,"date":"2026-06-08T16:59:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T16:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/151226\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T16:59:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T16:59:09","slug":"us-f-a-18-fighter-jet-disables-tanker-that-tried-to-break-through-navy-blockade-at-strait-of-hormuz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/151226\/","title":{"rendered":"US F\/A-18 fighter jet disables tanker that tried to break through Navy blockade at Strait of Hormuz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US forces \u201cdisabled\u201d an oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman on Monday after it tried to run the Navy blockade against Iranian ports, military officials said.<\/p>\n<p>An F\/A-18 Super Hornet jet fired at the Palau-flagged M\/T Marivex oil tanker as it attempted to enter Iranian water through the Gulf of Oman, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CENTCOM\/status\/2064019704482545753?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">US Central Command wrote on X<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.71237458;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"39611914\" width=\"1010\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/enforced-blockade-measures-botswana-flagged-129582534.jpg\" alt=\"Video still in monochrome of an oil tanker at sea with smoke rising from its engine room after being disabled by a missile.\" class=\"wp-image-39611914\"  \/>US forces \u201cdisabled\u201d an oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman on Monday after it tried to run the Navy blockade against Iranian ports, military officials said. CENTCOM \/ SWNS<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[The jet] from USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) fired a precision munition into the ship\u2019s engineering and steering spaces after the crew failed to comply with directions from U.S. forces,\u201d CENTCOM said. \u201cMarivex is no longer sailing to Iran.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US forces \u201cdisabled\u201d an oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman on Monday after it tried to run&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":151227,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[28],"tags":[102,1488,181,81,12002,101,933],"class_list":["post-151226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-strait-of-hormuz","tag-hormuz","tag-navy","tag-oman","tag-politics","tag-special-forces","tag-strait-of-hormuz","tag-us-news"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116715557083973833","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151226\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}